Drug test results must be accurate and belong to the person that is taking the test to be useful.
Factors:
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- Occasional mislabeling is small factor in mistaken results
- A larger and more dangerous challenge to providing accurate and meaningful results is:
- Intentional urine substitution to produce clean drug tests when the truth is far from a clean test result
- Hidden Army – invisible army of users who:
- Continue to receive controlled substances from doctor
- Stay in recovery
- Want to keep their jobs
- Want to stay out of jail
- These are highly motivated individuals who do anything to avoid detection
- Masking of testing examples (Bypass):
- Hundreds commercially available products that promise to mask, dilute or promise to clean, or provide substitution
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